Through a decree, the vice president extended the salary freeze. The Union for the Homeland bloc did not adhere to his request.
Victoria Villarruel avoided a new internal conflict: after the La Libertad block advances in the Senate bows to requests for other spaces, postponed the freezing of allowances for members of the upper house. If the measure was not applied, they would receive gross salaries close to $9.5 million per month.
The last update of the salary system for senators was carried out in a vote without debate in April. From there, and given the module scheme to which the diets are subject, Senate legislators’ income exceeded $7 million. Once that figure was reached, the members of the Upper House themselves defined the freezing of the amount they receive monthly for a period of three months, which expired at the end of December. It was then that Villarruel decided to extend that freeze.
“I have signed the Decree that orders andFreezing of senators’ allowances until March 31, 2025 so that they can deal with it in ordinary sessions. They added the blocks to my order Renewal Front of Social Concord, LLA, PRO, UCR, The United Provinces and Freedom, Work and Progress. It is my intention that the Senate accompany the Argentine people in the effort they are making,” said the head of the Senate of the Nationin a publication on social networks where the absence of Union for the Homeland among the benches that failed to comply with the freezing of assets.
Among the arguments of the decree, the document signed by Villarruel points out that “It is necessary that the representatives of the people share with the effort made by society as a whole, guided by the ethics of solidarity” and understands that the blocks that previously requested the suspension of the increases (PRO, UCR, LLA) “they are representative of different political spaces who make up the Honorable Senate of the Nation”.
Senators’ Diet: requests from the blocks
At least three blocks of the upper house sent written documents requesting the freezing of assets. Although the extension corresponds to them, through a vote in the chamber, their extralegislative positions represented one of Victoria Villarruel’s arguments to determine by decree the stoppage of salaries until March 2025.
The most resonant request occurred this Thursday, when the vice president of the bench of Freedom Advancesthe sanjuanino Bruno Olivera Lucerosigned a letter in which he expressed his “expresses willingness not to receive any increase in senators’ allowances until this matter is discussed during the ordinary sessions of 2025.”
Along the same lines, the Corrientes Eduardo Vischi -head of the Radical Civic Union bloc-described as “It’s unfortunate how this issue is manipulated and misinformed.“and maintained that it is used “as an instrument of discredit, before one of the public powers of the Nation, which are fundamental for the consolidation of the democracy“although he noted that the members of his space”We have the firm will not to perceive increases in our diets”.
Like them, the president of the PRO in the Senatethe Cordovan Luis Judge, He also stressed “the express desire not to receive any increase in allowances” given that “our country requires from those of us who have been honored with the representation of our compatriots a responsible and exemplary attitude“.
Source: Ambito
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